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    Anna Christmann

    Dr. Anna Christmann is the Aerospace Coordinator of German Federal Government and the Commissioner for Startups and the Digital Economy at the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action. She has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 and is part of the parliamentary group Alliance 90/ The Greens. In parliament, she is currently a full member of the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment and a deputy member of the Digital Committee. In the 19th legislative period (2017 – 2021), she was spokesperson for innovation and technology policy and civic engagement, and was chairwoman of the Enquete Commission on Artificial Intelligence from 2018 – 2020. She received her PhD from the University of Bern in 2011 and then worked at the Center for Democracy at the University of Zurich. From 2013, she worked at the Ministry of Science in Stuttgart as the minister’s office manager and as a policy advisor in science policy.

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